How do you take all that you’ve learned and all that you see in your future and use that to create winning products that harness your talents while making the world a better place? A tall order: but this talk will explore how ALL of the “chapters of your life” pay off as you create impact and use your unique life experiences to shape products that people love.

How do you look at markets and find the new business opportunities in them? Exploring the roles of passion, preparedness, creativity, and courage, learn how two rising entrepreneurs are thinking different and building breakthrough solutions that take things from “good enough” to a whole new level of impact.

How do you envision, drive, and build value with a business model that creates “success by design?” What metrics and goals demonstrate progress toward creating a successful business? Hear how proven entrepreneurs, and an investor who has looked across countless entrpreneurial models, envision and build business results.

Building a better world – or even a better business or technology – can only happen when we harness the talent of all potential contributors. Hear how diversity in tech innovation and corporate leadership yields measurable benefits – and enjoy a a sneak preview of the upcoming CODE documentary (a film on the impact of diversity in tech success).

The path to successful growth can be fraught with missteps and deadends. But how do you see the roadblocks early enough to avoid them while trekking the roadmap to success? This session’s real-life examples and vivid lessons will help you choose wisely as you look to amplify your impact through winning partnerships.

Avoiding the pitfalls is so much easier than recovering from them. In this action-oriented talk, entrepreneur and investor Thomas Korte shares his advice on how to steer clear of roadblocks, time sucks, and hazards that can slow entrepreneurs down – or stop them in their tracks. Learn how to see and avoid them, and ask YOUR questions about how to steer clear.

“How to transition your engineering team from product discovery to product delivery”

It’s one thing to have an idea. Another to build it into an MVP or early product: one that helps you discover how your users interact and engage. And it’s yet another to scale it full-force. How do you move through these phases? Who are the right hires to help you build – and grow? Get know-how on moving from idea to concept to success at scale from a proven engineering perspective.

We increasingly expect the world around us to be “smart” and seamlessly adapt to our taste and habits. Building this world is a difficult task — and it requires new ways of thinking about data. We’ll talk about what it takes to build data products — from analytics, exploration and technical challenges to the role of user feedback and machine learning.

We are all part of a world-changing movement: one bringing diversity and the benefits of gender equality to the world. Meet some of the catalysts actively driving this movement and making it more visible through socially-responsible investing, advising, and publishing.

Data science: what does it mean, who needs it, and how do you do it? With world-class experience and vision, moderator Sarah Allen will show the many shapes data science takes and how it pays off for businesses of any scale. Expect your data vocabulary and understanding to grow fast in this lively conversation.

Step by step, from idea to leap of faith to the sense that this dream is actually going to happen: here how that worked for entrepreneur Bea Arthur as she moved from innovator to Women 2.0 Pitch finalist to the “watch me fly!” success story she’s worked to become.

How to Get from Here to There written by Women 2.0 average rating 4.1/5 - 69 user ratings

What is “growth” and how do you drive it? This stellar panel – led by a key catalyst of the “Growth Hacker” movement – will explore the techniques that make you understand, drive, and measure user acquisition with new clarity and results.

Innovating, leading, keeping the vision clear: it’s all a challenge. How do you survive – no, THRIVE – while leaning and leading in all of the right directions? Few know better than proven entrepreneur and visionary business leader Kathy Savitt. Hear how she makes the pieces fit together and use her wisdom to set your path for all that happens now that you’ve learned “How To.”

Closing Keynote “How to THRIVE in Entrepreneurship, Business and Life” by Kathy Savitt, CMO, Yahoo written by Women 2.0 average rating 4.4/5 - 49 user ratings